What's the difference between sarsaparilla and umbel?

Sarsaparilla


Definition:

  • (n.) Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.
  • (n.) The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four of the seven plants, namely Francoeuria crispa (24%), Malus pumila (23%), Ruta chalepensis (30%) and Smilax sarsaparilla (25%), produced significant inhibition of carrageenan-induced inflammation in rats.
  • (2) In the present study seven of these crude drugs, namely Francoeuria crispa, Hammada elegans, Malus pumila, Ruta chalepensis, Smilax sarsaparilla, Achillea fragrantissima and Alpinia officinarum were tested against carrageenan-induced acute inflammation in rats.

Umbel


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found in the proposed model of morphogenesis of Acetabularia that the number of whorls N (as well as the number of umbel rays) depends on the degree of mechanical instability of the deforming cell wall (the greater is instability, the higher is the value N).
  • (2) Nitrogen fertilization gave higher number of compound umbels and increased oil percentage, seed yield and oil yield with increase in dose.
  • (3) A living, ammonia-obligate, umbellate form, similar to the Precambrian microfossil Kakabekia umbellata Barghoorn, has been isolated from two soil specimens collected at Harlech, Wales.
  • (4) dauricine and polysaccharide of pore umbellate as group I.
  • (5) Morphologically, ginseng is a perennial herb with fleshy root, a single annual stem bearing a whorl of palmately compound leaves, and a terminal simple umbel of small 5-merous flowers.
  • (6) The compound umbels per plant increased as the distance between plants increased.
  • (7) When the dendrite reaches layer II it bursts into an umbel of rapidly tapering branches.
  • (8) An ontogeny is proposed in which the stalk and basal bulb of the complete umbellate structure are assumed to be part of the reproductive appartus.
  • (9) These results show that dauricine and polysaccharide of pore umbellate did not strengthen the antiviral effect of Ara-A.
  • (10) As it could be expected from the high prevalence of adults with antibody (95%), 90% of umbelical cord sera have h.ia.,, Over 50% of children 15 days-3 months of age are still positive and afterwards the positivity decreases progressivley till a minimum of 8% in children 10--12 months old.
  • (11) Early sown plants produced taller plants, with higher compound umbels.

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